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Mini clip is safer than heart-valve surgery
ATLANTA - Many Americans with leaky heart valves soon might be able to get them fixed without open-heart surgery. A study showed that a tiny clip implanted through an artery was safer and nearly as effective as sur…
The skinny on weight loss: Part VII
What does detoxification have to do with weight loss? A better question might be "is there a connection between toxins and fat?" Let me explain. All the detoxification pathways in the body (liver-colon, kidney-blad…
Newborn blood tests and diet soda - what's the link?
The words "phenylketonurics: contains phenylalanine" is on every food product containing aspartame as a sweetener. But have you ever stopped to wonder what it means and why it is included on the label?
Ask your audiologist...
In these economic hardship times is there a way to donate old hearing aids so someone else can use them?
Blood pressure and chiropractic
You hear a lot about the health of your heart and for very good reason. I doubt there is a single person who doesn't realize how astronomically important our heart is to our ability to function. Stop the heart, sto…
Prosciutto, beets liven up spring salads
Looking to liven up your salads?
Community Thanks March 14, 2010
VOLUNTEERS: Thoroughly cleaned school rooms
Saving on your laundry bill
You know I love line-drying my laundry. The work of hanging clothes outside shakes stress from my system like nothing else. It charges my spirit and seems to imbue every stitch of my clothing with the freshness of …
Life Erickson: Building for the future
The owner of American Dream Estates is this year's president of the North Idaho Building Contractors Association and the economy is the first thing that comes …
Scale back the daily weigh-ins
DEAR DR. GOTT: I am a 61-year-old woman with a history of breast cancer, parathyroid disease and knee problems. I had a lumpectomy for the cancer seven years ago, a parathyroidectomy five years ago and knee replace…
Oscars: How did David slay Goliath?
NEW YORK - For Hollywood pundits, industry folk and Oscar fans still paying attention on Monday, a major question remained: How did David slay Goliath?
The Propellerheads March 14, 2010
Q: My brother convinced me to switch to Firefox and Thunderbird. Are there any good add-ons that you can recommend to enhance my browsing pleasure?
Researchers: AIDS virus can hide in bone marrow
WASHINGTON - The virus that causes AIDS can hide in the bone marrow, avoiding drugs and later awakening to cause illness, according to new research that could point the way toward better treatments for the disease.
Margarete Fallat: Living through Hitler's rise, fall
SANDPOINT - You've seen the photos: German citizens being marched through concentration camps at the end of World War II, forced to witness the carnage of Hitl…
Post-apocalypse sirens, 'Mad Men' wives in Paris
PARIS - From sirens of the apocalypse to sixties chic housewives, picture perfect on the arms of their "Mad Men," Paris had something for everyone on day one of the City of Light's fall-winter 2010-11 ready-to-wear…